Julio Alejandro

Writing

Julio Alejandro

Born — Died

1906-02-27 — 1995-09-22

Place of birth

Huesca, Aragón, Spain

Known for

Writing

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Viridiana poster
7.7

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Viridiana

1962

Tristana poster
7.2

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.

Tristana

1970

Nazarín poster
7.6

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Nazarín

1959

Simon of the Desert poster
7.6

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Simon of the Desert

1965

Cry of the Bewitched poster
4.3

A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.

Cry of the Bewitched

1957

No artwork available
NR

A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.

Faith

1974

Film credits

Behind the camera

Viridiana poster
7.7

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Viridiana

1962

Tristana poster
7.2

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.

Tristana

1970

Nazarín poster
7.6

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Nazarín

1959

Simon of the Desert poster
7.6

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Simon of the Desert

1965

Cry of the Bewitched poster
4.3

A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.

Cry of the Bewitched

1957

No artwork available
NR

A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.

Faith

1974

No artwork available
NR

An elderly wealthy woman’s public charity in a forgotten town sparks tension and rivalry among neighbors. A working-class wife is pushed into a harsh maze of institutions as the conflict spills into family life.

Charity

1974

Gutierritos poster
6.6

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Gutierritos

1959

No artwork available
NR

A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.

Hope

1974

Yesenia poster
6.6

A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.

Yesenia

1971

Una leyenda de amor poster
6.3

The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations.

Una leyenda de amor

1982

Happy Year, My Love poster
7.0

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

Happy Year, My Love

1957

Si volvieras a mi poster
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

Si volvieras a mi

1954

Miracles Weaver poster
6.0

Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".

Miracles Weaver

1962

The New Invisible Man poster
5.6

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

The New Invisible Man

1958

El hombre del puente poster
6.0

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

El hombre del puente

1976

María Isabel poster
8.0

A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

María Isabel

1967

La ciudad de los niños poster
6.4

Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.

La ciudad de los niños

1957

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Las tres alegres comadres

1952

Después de la tormenta poster
6.8

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

Después de la tormenta

1955

Ash Wednesday poster
4.6

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.

Ash Wednesday

1958

The Sin of a Mother poster
6.4

A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...

The Sin of a Mother

1960

Aunt Isabel's Garden poster
5.5

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972

Heaven and Earth poster
6.2

Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.

Heaven and Earth

1962

La estrella vacía poster
6.6

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

La estrella vacía

1960

No artwork available
4.4

In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.

La Güera Rodríguez

1978

Fruto prohibido poster
6.2

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

Fruto prohibido

1953

When the Fog Lifts poster
6.8

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

When the Fog Lifts

1952

El ídolo poster
6.3

The story of a magnate who is dedicated to doing shady business. This man is involved in a series of problems when his wife, his lover and his secretary find out about the relationship he has with each one.

El ídolo

1971

El vendedor de muñecas poster
5.3

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.

El vendedor de muñecas

1955

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman poster
6.8

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman

1955

El hijo de Ángela María poster
6.3

The love of two young people is prevented by the envy and resentment of a greedy man and his evil son.

El hijo de Ángela María

1974

El caso de una adolescente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El caso de una adolescente

1958

La dulce enemiga poster
7.6

The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.

La dulce enemiga

1957

Un divorcio poster
6.7

Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..

Un divorcio

1953

La Diana Cazadora poster
4.2

A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.

La Diana Cazadora

1957

The Mexican poster
6.7

On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend.

The Mexican

1977

La leyenda de Rodrígo poster
6.5

Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.

La leyenda de Rodrígo

1981

Mujeres sin mañana poster
6.3

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

Mujeres sin mañana

1951

Azahares rojos poster
6.7

Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.

Azahares rojos

1961